We’ve come across some of these before, but I’m sure there will be at least one you didn’t know about.Īctivity Monitor can be useful if you want to figure out what’s happening on your Mac. I thought it might be useful to listeners if I quickly ran through what’s in there and maybe you’ll discover something useful you didn’t know you had.įirst up, I’ll cover those applications that reside in the Utilities folder. There’s a folder on the default Launchpad configuration called “Other” which contains all 17 applications from the Utility folder that lives inside your Applications folder, plus 9 other applications that aren’t usually featured in Apple promotional materials.
In fact, it’s a whole lot of somethings and they’re all quite old. Faced with the prospect of sourcing an entire show, I did the same thing, but what I noticed was not something new. Often when Allison puts out a call for material for the show, I’ll take a look at my installed Mac apps via Launchpad to see if there’s anything relatively new that’s worth a review.
